The Green Mile (1999)
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Reviews Counted:129
Fresh:100
Rotten:29
Average Rating:6.8/10
Consensus: Though The Green Mile is long, critics say it's an absorbing, emotionally powerful experience.
Runtime: 3 hrs 20 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: "The Green Mile" is told in a flashback narrated by Paul Edgecomb to his friend Elaine Connelly. Edgecomb is now living in an old-age home some six decades after working as the head guard on Death... [More]
Starring: Tom Hanks, Michael Clarke Duncan, David Morse, Bonnie Hunt
Director: Frank Darabont
Reviews for The Green Mile
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Though the film drifts off down some long blind alleys, when Darabont exercises discipline the result is highly effective. Full Review |
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The supernatural elements carry an undeniable emotional charge, but the solution to the underlying murder mystery is disappointingly tidy and trite. Full Review |
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2/5 |
There is no doubt that the director has mistaken size for quality with bum-numbing consequences. Full Review |
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4/5 |
Over the epic running time the film inches its way through a complex soap opera of events on the Row, punctuated by three pivotal and grisly executions via 'Old Sparky,' the electric chair. Full Review |
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9/10 |
A thoroughly absorbing supernatural fairytale about good and evil living under the same roof. Full Review |
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7/10 |
...despite the clichés and stereotypes, the film's cast manages to lift it from the depths of the commonplace and make watching it enjoyable. Full Review |
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To more than a few viewers, this one will feel like a life sentence. Full Review |
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4/5 |
Dotted with many fine moments, clotted with a few flabby ones. Full Review |
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Overextending its welcome by a whole hour, Frank Darabont's film is the most commercially popular adaptation of a Stephen King novella, but also the dullest and slowest, a retro prison drama with something for everyone and not much for discerning viewers Full Review |
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Although The Green Mile is a satisfying and affecting movie, it's not The Shawshank Redemption -- not by a long shot. Full Review |
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3.5/5 |
One of the best prison films ever made. Full Review |
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Mr. Jingles was robbed! (no mouse-Oscar) Full Review |
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C |
Is this movie making an argument for euthanasia and suicide? Should nice folks have the option of giving up the ghost when they get tired of the world's problems? Full Review |
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3.5/4 |
Of all the movies based on King novels, The Green Mile ranks near the top -- but below Darabont's first, The Shawshank Redemption. Full Review |
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1/4 |
Three long hours of wind, an exercise in titanic self-importance intent on passing off klunky rhetoric as poignant drama. Full Review |
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4.5/5 |
Hanks and the other guards' acting is impeccable as would be expected, but Duncan and his fellow prisoners are also disturbingly real. Full Review |
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